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Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

My, how time flies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I knew COVID wrecked the world's internal clock but this is ridiculous!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Ugh. The realization that 21.04 was actually three and a half years ago has me a bit depressed...